inotail

inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program
found in the base installation of every Linux/Unix
system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure
in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up
tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f'
option). Standard tail polls the file every second
by default, while inotail listens to special
events sent by the kernel through the inotify API
to determine whether a file needs to be reread.

Release Notes: Support for the '-n/-c +<num>' options (tail relative to start of file) has been added. Cleanup regarding copyright and license issues was done across the tree. This release also contains various minor fixes regarding performance and error handling.